Arts & Entertainment Lil Nas X Pays a Visit to Oasis For a Drag Show, Tips Queens Generously The biggest openly gay rap star/pop star ever to make it in America, Lil Nas X, was in San Francisco to perform the final U.S. stop on his tour on Sunday, but Saturday night he headed to SoMa for drag show.
SF News SF to Deploy 150 'Ambassadors' to Make Downtown Shopping District Feel Safer This Holiday Season After the PR disaster that San Francisco faced last year around the holidays, with smash-and-grab robberies being conducted left and right by coordinated gaggles of thieves, the mayor is hoping for a calmer season this year.
Bay Area Sports In Super Bowl Rematch, 49ers Hang In There With the Chiefs, Until They Don't Even though the San Francisco 49ers had taken an early 10-point lead on Sunday, memories of Super Bowl LIV in 2020 were no doubt still fresh.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Delfina Reopens Wednesday After Lengthy Closure and Remodel, With New Bar (and No More Roast Chicken) Longtime Mission staple Delfina, which has been open as an outdoor restaurant with Pizzeria Delfina pizzas and some limited menu items for some months now, is finally reopening its remodeled and expanded dining room this week.
SF News Sunday Afternoon House Fire In Outer Sunset Displaces Multiple Residents Just four blocks from Ocean Beach, a Sunday afternoon house fire spread to at least two households and was contained by 2:30 p.m., but appears to have displaced several residents.
SF News Oakland Police Warn of Surge In Thefts of Power Tools at Gunpoint There’s a new wrinkle in the rampant theft of power tools, as OPD says suspects in one specific Oakland area are striking while the owner is home, and taking the tools at gunpoint.
SF News Governor's Office Wades Into Noe Valley Toilet Controversy, Says Funds Will Be Withheld Once again, Gavin Newsom's administration is admonishing San Francisco and its slow-moving, needlessly costly bureaucracy, and holding funds hostage for a planned public toilet in Noe Valley until the city can figure out how to make it less stupidly expensive.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: No Remains Found In Buried Car In Atherton Police found nothing suspicious and no human remains in that buried Mercedes in Atherton, Gavin Newsom again vowed to complete his next term as governor, and there are apparently 300 COVID variants now circling the globe.
SF News Buried '90s Mercedes Fully Removed From Bay Area Estate After landscapers found an old Mercedes-Benz convertible buried at an Atherton estate this past Thursday, a media frenzy grew around why it was hidden. Police Saturday completely excavated the car and sent it to a crime lab to help offer more details about the situation.
SF News Sunday Links: Small Earthquake Shakes Up South Bay This Morning A preliminary 2.7-magnitude tremor rattled off near Morgan Hill this morning, PG&E shutoffs are expected to continue in the Bay Area until Monday afternoon, and Santa Rosa's first gun buyback event Saturday saw hundreds of firearms traded for cash.
SF News Homelessness Among Latinx Residents in SF Has Skyrocketed Since COVID-19 Pandemic Estimates put that as many as 20,000 people in SF will experience homelessness in 2022. Although members of the Latinx community make up 16% of the city's total residents, the demographic now makes up more than 30% of SF's unhoused population — a huge increase since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink At Long Last, Bob's Donuts Is Expanding Outside of San Francisco There's no better way to end a successful night of bar hopping than taking a trip to Bob's Donuts — the 62-year-old fried dough institution that holds a special place in any San Franciscan's heart. For the first time, the celebrated donut shop is now opening two new locations outside of SF.
SF News Saturday Links: Presidio Heights Jeweler Robbed, $6K Worth of Merchandise Stolen PG&E shutoffs around the Bay Area are still possible Saturday, a wayward sea lion decided to climb atop a CA State Parks car this week, and a thief made off with thousands of dollars in jewelry at Mabel Chong Jewelry in SF Wednesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mission-Bernal Heights Favorite Old Devil Moon Is Permanently Closing Next Month Snap Inc. is closing its massive 33,000-square-foot office in San Francisco, a man was fatally struck Thursday afternoon by a freight train near Berkeley’s Aquatic Park, and Old Devil Moon will shutter for good in November.
Business & Tech Instacart Calls Off Its Planned IPO, as Tech Stocks Are Tanking Across the Board A much-ballyhooed Instacart IPO has been put on the shelf, as tech companies that boomed during the pandemic are now suffering a cruel correction.
SF News Car Found Buried Next to Atherton Mansion Was Stolen In 1992 The Mercedes-Benz that was found buried on the property of the late Johnny Lew, an ex-felon whom neighbors knew as "a crook" when he lived there in the 1990s, was apparently reported stolen in Palo Alto exactly 30 years ago.
San Francisco Is Home to Dozens of Corner Store Cats — Who's Your Favorite? It must be almost Meowvember, because it's apparently time for another round of media attention to one of San Francisco's most beloved subspecies of pet: the corner store cat.
Business & Tech Now Elon Musk’s Proposed Twitter Takeover May Be Subject to a National Security Review Musk’s Twitter takeover is largely financed by Saudi and Qatari money, and given Musk’s curious pro-Putin turn, national security officials are wondering what these international oligarchs might be getting in return here.
SF News PG&E Warning of Public Safety Power Shut-Offs Due to Wind Forecast In North Bay PG&E on Friday issued a heads-up that the power may be going out in parts of northern Napa and Sonoma counties, as well as nine other counties, due to some high winds in the forecast this weekend.
SF News Santa Rosa Man Busted With 73 Pounds of Meth, Plus Firearms Some meth binges in the North Bay are going to have to be cut short because authorities just arrested a guy and seized a massive stash of crystal that was surely headed for the street.
SF News Area Woman Charged With Cashing Unemployment Checks Using Identities of Scott Peterson and the ‘Yosemite Killer’ A former contractor at San Quentin Prison used the personal information of multiple inmates to pull in $145,000 worth of fraudulent EDD benefits over a two-year period, and one of the identities she used was that of Scott Peterson.
SF News Mystery Unfolding In Atherton As Mercedes Is Found Buried In Yard, Likely From 30 Years Ago Some serious intrigue began Thursday when some landscapers working at a property in Atherton unearthed a car buried four to five feet deep in the yard — and it's not yet clear whether there may be a body in it.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Stockton Serial Killer Used Ghost Gun A school bus in San Jose struck and killed a man on an electric scooter, SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins walked out of a debate last night amid a protest, and Stockton serial killer Wesley Brownlee allegedly used a ghost gun in his killings.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Boba Guys at Valencia and 19th Street Closes Amidst Very Bizarre Staff-Management Dispute Elon Musk is claiming he’s going to lay off 75% of Twitter staff, Stow Lake might get renamed, and the flagship Boba Guys shop fired nearly all of its employees over some apparent interpersonal drama.
Arts & Entertainment 13 Best Bay Area Haunted Houses, Pumpkin Patches, and Halloween Whatnot For 2022 Submitted for your approval… 13 spooky Halloween weekend attractions in SF and the grave beyond for haunted houses, fiendish drag queens, spooky nights out, and family-friendly pumpkin patch spirits.
